A truly
frightening creature from the
Alien series of movies. It's the
larval state for the
xenomorph species which hatch from
eggs laid by the
queen. They wander around until they find a suitable
host, at which time they leap on its
face,
paralyze it with
venom, and jam a tube down its
throat. The tube keeps the victim
alive until it implantes an "egg" inside its chest. The facehugger then falls off and
dies. About 24 hours later, a
chestburster erupts from the victim, killing it, and scurries off to grow to
full size.
In the
Aliens vs. Predator computer game, it's the worst thing to run into. The game is
dark,
creepy, and
dramatic to start with, and then you hear a light scraping sound as a facehugger crawls around the floor towards you. The rooms are very dark. The facehugger is
black. Then it
smacksup against the
screen, ending the
game and inducing a
fatal heart-attack for the
player.